sheugh

Definition

A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.

Etymology

From Irish seoch, from English sough.

Example Sentences

• "The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh)."
• "The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse."
• "The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh."